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What if Mongol armies invade and conquer Northern India in the XIII century? Based on what happened elsewhere, I think they would eventually get assimilated or expelled (or both).

But who would the Mongols assimilate to: to the Hinduist Indian majority or to the Islamic Turkic Rulling class???

Culturally, they'd probably feel closer to the Turkic rulling class, who had conquered India only a century or two earlier, so their conversion to Islam is the most likely outcome (especially since what's now Afganisthan was already Muslim).

But, that's not absolutely necessary: for example, Mongols in what's now Persia didn't become Muslims inmediatly. Here they'd have a strong reason not to convert: to get the favour of the majority of the population. Can they assimilate into the Hinduist system instead, becoming Kshatriya, as the Huns and other Asian conquerors of India had done in the past???

Thoughts?
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